Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech

by Work Projects Administration and James R. Dow

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In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803243022

ISBN13:9780803243026

Release Date:December 2010

Publisher:Bison Books

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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Folklore & Mythology History Social Science Social Sciences

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